Land in Hounslow

Housing and the local plan

In the government’s Housing Delivery Test 2025, Hounslow built 76% of the homes it needed over three years: 20% buffer.

The council delivered under 85% of the homes it needed, so it must add a 20% buffer to its five-year housing land supply and publish an action plan.

Its adopted local plan is the Hounslow Local Plan 2015-2030, adopted September 2015 (11 years ago; plans are meant to be reviewed at least every five years).

A new plan, the Hounslow Local Plan 2020-2041, is at final consultation (Regulation 19).

From MHCLG’s Housing Delivery Test and the Planning Data platform’s local plan records, which some councils haven’t kept up to date. Whether the tilted balance applies to a scheme also depends on the council’s five-year land supply and the site itself: get planning advice.

Planning constraints

Of the 1,387 outlines of an acre or more, 249 (18%) are mostly in Green Belt. 215 (16%) are partly in flood zone 3, the highest risk.

From the government’s Planning Data platform. Check any site with Planning check.

Farmland quality

100% of the graded farmland outlines of an acre or more are grade 1 or 2, the best and most versatile land.

• Grade 160
• Non-agricultural228
• Urban1,099

Natural England’s provisional grades at the centre of each outline. A broad-scale map, so a field survey is needed for any one site.

Electricity network

603 outlines of an acre or more are within 1 km of a primary or grid substation. The network operator publishes spare demand capacity at 8 substations here, about 98 MW in all.

The best 2 km square for a data centre scores 76 out of 100, and 3 squares score 70 or more. Data centre site search →